Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry: 41 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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The second volume to the Beholding Beauty series sets out to discover the ancient traditions of body adornment and beautification of Central Asia, where the ‘East’ and ‘West’ have converged, and where great civilisations of the past have fused to create the societies and cultures today. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. With a focus on the region’s pre-Colombian body painting practices and elaborate adornments, the volume unravels the deeper meaning and functions behind these beauty rites and the plants intrinsic to their use. Ingenito’s reconstruction of Saʿdī’s sacred homoeroticism, his exploration of vital affinities between literature and philosophy and theorization of lyric performativity—these interventions break ample new ground within Saʿdī scholarship and Persian studies, and will be generative for Islamic studies scholars, medievalists, and literary scholars and comparatists far and wide.

Set with spectacular photographs capturing exuberant hairstyles, vibrant clothing and intricate ornamentation displayed on the Tuareg, Fulani, Songhai and Dogon queens among others. It will challenge your presuppositions and convictions about the place of beauty and art in the Christian life and the life of the church. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. At the back of the book there are excerpts from Scripture describing how Jesus healed a man born blind, and also the second miraculous catch of fish.

Crashing waves on the rocks in winter storms were always loud, and in spring the air was fresh with shore flowers. Beholding Beauty is a series of books that takes readers on a treasure hunt to seek the origins and secrets of beauty and wellbeing. Beholding Beauty encompasses all corners of the globe, collecting stories, indigenous cosmetic practices and plant-derived recipes from women living at the world’s ancient crossroads—cultural melting pots that have produced an astonishing spectrum of beauty and have witnessed the trade of luxury products, ideas and a spiritual worldview for millennia.

David Chaffetz is the author of Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou (Abbreviated Press, November 2019).They are meant to lead us to Him, whose beauty is so vast that it fills the universe and our souls along with it. If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.